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Join me in raising the awareness to the wonderful work of The Jimmy Fund, the Boston Red Sox official charity for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Jimmy Fund was founded in 1948 and made popular by the generosity and support of the late great Red Sox LF Ted Williams.

To learn more about The Jimmy Fund, click HERE. The main page for The Jimmy Fund can be found HERE.

This is Boston Sports Radio station WEEI’s 10th annual event for The Jimmy Fund. Back in 2003 NESN (New England Sports Network), a cable TV station which is owned by the Red Sox, joined in the telethon to televise the event and has done so ever since. This telethon has become a two day event and after collecting $3.1M last year they have collected almost $26M in the past 9 years.

To spread the word, please fill out the form at this link (click HERE), to e-mail a friend about this important two day fund raising event!

WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon For more details about WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon, please check out the following two links:

http://www.jimmyfund.org/eve/event/redsox-radio-telethon/default.html

AND

http://www.kintera.org/faf/home/ccp.asp?ievent=275067&ccp=80886

For a listing of the events for these two days, please check out the event’s page on NESN, HERE. The event will be going on both Tuesday (30th) and Wednesday (31^st) from 6am to Midnight! Last, but definitely NOT least, to make a donation, see below.

Join the WEEI / NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon fan page on Facebook

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Y Athlete… Assisting and Empowering Todays Athletes

The one thing that separates the successful athletes who reach their highest potential level from those who don’t are the ones who lack focus. Focus defined is the concentration of attention or energy on something: i.e. a goal. As an athlete looking to make it in their respective sport, whether its high school, collegiate, professional or Olympic level, having a focused and clear goal oriented mind set is what will propel the athlete towards success.

The Y Athlete teaches athletes to have a purpose for anything and everything they do: for this very reason the ‘Y’ in Y Athlete www.YAthlete.com stands for the word ‘why’ itself.

The idea behind the Y Athlete is to teach the drive behind your actions!

What is your drive? What’s makes you fire on all cylinders everyday? What excites you so much, that IT would make you jump out of bed a 5:30am in the morning so you can get a run or lift in before the busy day that lies ahead? What is IT that when you run into an unfavorable situation, the IT will help you battle through the adversity with the right attitude? Have you ever thought hard into Y you do the things you do? Y do you eat what you eat? Y you listen to what you listen to or Y you hang around the people you do? There are answers to all of these questions, but are they truly the most power answers or are they just answers that you think the person asking wants to hear. Most of the time we are making decisions to the things we do without ever asking the question. Are these actions or decisions that I am about to make going to take me closer to my goals or lead me astray from my goals?

What is your ultimate Y? Right now instead of looking at your whole life and asking Y to everything I am asking you to focus on the question, Y do you play sports? What are you looking to accomplish through your participation in sports? Are you looking to receive a collegiate athletic scholarship? Maybe you would like to participate at international competitions for your country, which in turn may just earn you a future spot on your country’s Olympic team. What about the possibility of playing a sport at the professional level? One great goal may be that you love to participate in games with your teammates and friends which is a very nice goal. But I am here to talk with the serious minded athletes. The athletes looking at being the best they can possibly be.

Maybe you have never even thought about this question before and I know there are others that may already have planned out a purpose filled course in order to attain whatever it is they are seeking. There are a lot of roads out there to take to your final destination, some are thruways and while others may be filled with bunches of red lights. Also remember there are some roads that will drive you up to the front door of your destination while others may take you down a rough, bumpy road that leads to a dead end. Imagine putting in all those hours and years of hard work, commitment and discipline in only to find yourself knocking on the wrong door or no door at all. One thing is for sure and that is while working towards your goal there is definitely not a lot of room for making the wrong decisions. There is no replay button you can hit and go back to fix the wrong turns you may have made. So let’s get you started out in the right direction and minimize the wrong turns or detours you may make. John Wooden once stated “The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action ” Let your actions do your talking!

So how do you go about setting goals and getting the support you need to reach them? We believe it all starts with your Ultimate Goal, The Y you play. Take some time to think about your reason behind your game. From there, athletes can begin to decide upon what we call Season Goals. Whatever point you’re at today, you can figure out and decide what do I want to accomplish right now that will take me to my ultimate goal? And what actions do I need to perform to get there. Setting goals may be challenging at first, but once you get in the habit of doing it they can definitely become fun and inspiring. We encourage athletes to remember it isn’t just about where you want to be in your sport, it is what you do to get where you want to be. Which is why daily evaluation on the actions your taking to reach your goals becomes so important. Have you ever thought about the level you perform at as far as your nutrition? Your rest? Your work ethic? The Y Athlete empowers athletes to be both accountable and responsible for the athlete they want to become. And daily evaluation enables an athlete to experience and feel process success and not just outcome success. By placing you the athlete at the forefront of decision-making, the Y Athlete makes the athlete the catalyzing force in the process of improving.

To learn more about how you can implement goal setting and how we can assist you with your self evaluation check out The Y Tool www.YAthlete.com/tool/landing The Y tool has the unique ability to allow an athlete to consider, reflect and track progress in ways that extend far beyond “number of reps”. For those athletes that are willing to accept the responsibility and accountability and become an active part in the process of getting to where they want to “be” as an athlete, becoming a Y Athlete will be an empowering and wonderful experience.

In an acceptance of responsibility comes awareness and respect that don’t only make someone a better athlete, but a better person as well.

Choose Your Journey, Make It Happen!

Y Athlete

www.YAthlete.com

Well, better late than never! By clicking on the image below of the green android next to the weird square you can download the new Baseball Reflections mobile app.

This app is powered by Notice Orange, a division of Notice Software!

If anyone is interested in creating a glove manufacturing company based out of Lawrence, MA in the old Mills, please contact me directly, I’d love to discuss this with you (only serious investors/manufacturers/etc. please).

Going Yard with Kenn Olson will return next week!

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Grand Slam Baseball Challange

The video that follows was taken from a local Washington DC FoxNews station…

Number 5

Photo taken from from our friends at Sports Then & Now

Felipe and Moises Alou

You can see the stats for Felipe Alou by clicking this link.

You can see the stats for Moises Alou
by clicking this link.

Number 4

Cecil and Price Fielder – The only father – son duo to each hit 50 or more home runs!

You can see the stats for Cecil Fielder by clicking this link.

You can see the stats for Prince Fielder by clicking this link.

Number 3

Ray, Bob, Aaron and Bret Boone – on this list for the fact that there has been 3 generations of Boone’s

You can see the stats for Ray Boone by clicking this link.

You can see the stats for Bob Boone by clicking this link.

You can see the stats for Aaron Boone by clicking this link.

You can see the stats for Bret Boone by clicking this link.

Number 2

Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. – the only father and son combo to play in the same season (in 1989 Sr. was with the Reds while Jr. was with the Mariners), on the same team and hit back to back home runs on September 14, 1990 for the Seattle Mariners!

You can see the stats for Ken GriffeySr. by clicking this link.

You can see the stats for Ken GriffeyJr. by clicking this link.

Barry & Bobby Bonds

Number 1

Bobby and Barry Bonds – The only father and son duo to hit over 300 home runs (Bobby hit 332 while Barry hit 762*) AND steal over 400 bases (Bobby stole 461 while Barry stole 514)!

You can see the stats for Bobby Bonds by clicking this link.

You can see the stats for Barry Bonds by clicking this link.

I now see that it is much easier doing one of these with at least one more person like on the BBA Baseball Talk podcasts or online with the guys over at Pro Rumors TV.

Either way, I hope you enjoy this & I’ll work on improving this as I do more of these solo webcasts thanks to my new laptop with the built in webcam!

So without further ado, on with the webcast…

Sorry for the delay…we have some technical difficulties with YouTube earlier that had to wait until I got home from work. I went 2:05 over the allowed 15 minute time frame.

American & National League Divisional Series Preview/Predictions from Peter Schiller on Vimeo.

This 17 minute webcast (my first) is my American & National League Divisional Series Preview/Predictions.

Please let me know if you think it is too long.
Thanks!